Jersey City police say Easter weekend marred by five robberies

This weekend saw a slew of robberies in Jersey City, with victims including a 48-year-old woman robbed of her paycheck and a 50-year-old man knocked unconscious by a drinking buddy.

The 48-year-old woman was walking on Liberty Avenue in the city’s Western Slope section on Friday around 11:30 p.m. when, she told police, she was grabbed from behind by a man wearing a dark-hooded shirt and hat.

The man grabbed her around the neck and punched her in the face several times before grabbing her purse which contained her JC Penny paycheck and fleeing, the woman told police.

The incident was captured by a surveillance camera on Liberty Avenue. The man is described as roughly 5-foot-10 and of medium build.

A few hours later, at approximately 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 27-year-old man walking near Virginia and Bergen avenues was approached by a male who said, “I know you got something. Give it up,” the victim told police.

The victim handed over $12 in cash and his cellphone to the perpetrator, who was described as thin and wearing a blue hoodie with white lettering.

On Sunday at 2 a.m., police responded to Mike’s Place, at Union Street and West Side Avenue, where a 50-year-old victim told police he had been punched unconscious and robbed by a man he had been drinking with all night.

When the victim, who police noted was “extremely intoxicated” and suffering from a bloody nose, awoke, he noticed he was missing his cell phone and wallet containing $30, he told police

About three hours later, at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, a 40-year-old male told police he was leaving his Duncan Avenue residence when three juveniles jumped from behind a van and approached him. One of them pointed a small automatic pistol at the victim and said, “Give up the money,” according to a police report.

The victim bolted, running west on Duncan Avenue, but tripped and fell when his shoe started to come off, allowing the teens to catch up to him, reports said. One of the boys put a gun to the man’s neck as they went through his pockets, eventually taking his wallet and cellphone, according to reports.

Finally, at 5:50 a.m. Sunday, a 22-year-old man told police he was robbed at gunpoint at Claremont Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive by a masked man wearing black pants and a black hoodie.